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New Railway rule you must know, otherwise you will miss your train
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NEW DELHI, JAN 7: Railways is planning to seal stations just like airports and passengers would have to arrive 15-20 minutes before scheduled departure of trains to complete the process of security checks.
The security plan - with high end technology - has already been put in motion at Allahabad, in anticipation of the Kumbh Mela which begins this month and at Hoobly railway station in Karnataka with a blueprint for 202 more stations ready for implementation, Railway Protection Force director general Arun Kumar told PTI.
"The plan is to seal the railway stations. It is primarily about identifying openings and to determine how many can be closed. There are areas which will be closed through permanent boundary walls, others will be manned by RPF personnel and yet others will have collapsible gates.
"At each entry point there will be random security checks. However, unlike at airports, passengers need not come hours in advance, but just 15-20 minutes ahead of their departure times to ensure that they are not delayed because of the security process," he said.
Kumar said that while security will increase, presence of security personnel will not.
"If we are inventing in technology, then manpower requirement will reduce," he said.
These steps are a part of a security plan under the Integrated Security System (ISS) which was approved in 2016 to strengthen surveillance mechanism at 202 railway stations.
The ISS will comprise CCTV cameras, access control, personal and baggage screening system and bomb detection and disposal system which together provide multiple checking of passengers and baggage from the point of entry in the station premises till boarding of train. The anticipated cost of the ISS project stands at Rs 385.06 crore.
"The security plan envisages a layered security check where passengers will be scrutinised even before they enter the station premises to ease the pressure at stations during peak hours," Kumar said.
It will also include real-time face recognition software which will alert the RPF command centre of any known offenders.
Passengers will be checked randomly - every eighth or ninth passenger will undergo the process on his arrival at the station," he said.
PTI

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Jan 5, 2019 4:09 PM

The All India Bank Employees Association and Bank Employees Federation of India has informed the Indian Banks' Association of the two-day nationwide strike on January 8-9.

New Delhi:

A section of public sector bank employees have decided to go on a two-day strike on January 8 and 9 in support of a nation-wide strike call given by 10 central trade unions against the government's alleged anti-worker policy.

The All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) and Bank Employees Federation of India has informed the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) of the two-day nationwide strike on January 8-9, IDBI Bank said in a filing to the BSE.

In a separate filing to the BSE, Bank of Baroda said "in the event of AlBEA and BEFI proceeding on strike on January 8-9, 2019, the functioning of bank's branches/offices in some of the zones may be affected."

Ten central trade unions have called for a nationwide general strike on January 8-9, against the "anti-people" policies of the Centre and have placed a charter of 12 demands before the central government.

On December 26, nine bank unions and around 1 million employees of various banks, including private lenders, had observed a one-day strike to protest against the proposed amalgamation of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda.

The major DTH service providers have come out with individual pricing, following the announcement of new regulations by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI) asking the consumers to select channels of their choice till January 31.

The TRAI had notified twice, in March 2017 and July 2018 over the new regulatory framework asking the companies to follow the schedule.

Issuing a statement, the TRAI said that all existing plans availed by the subscribers would continue uninterrupted till 31 January 2019.

The regulator warned service providers against disconnecting services to subscribers and local cable operators till that date.

Hathway’s basic plan starts at Rs 100 and has genre based packs along with independent channel prices. The English movie pack and sports packs of seven popular channels costs Rs 42.7 per month.

Airtel DTH has combo top-ups and a la carte plans for all the TV channels, with premium channels like Sony, Star Plus, Sony Ten and Star Sports and Zee Cinema priced at over Rs 20. However, there are a lot of free channels like DD, 9XM, B4U.

Dish TV, another big DTH player, has also released its channel pricing list on its website.

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It's day three at CES 2019 and there's plenty of new announcements that have happened overnight. Gaming laptop and PC maker Alienware announced a brand new one-of-a-kind Area 51m laptop that buyers can open up and customise themselves with desktop-grade parts. Google announced that Assistant's new interpreter mode can now translate conversations in 27 different languages and act as your real-life translator. Lenovo announced its new Smart Clock that can answer questions and do a bunch of other things. And SanDisk announced a 4 TB pen drive. But there's plenty more happening at the CES show floor, so stay tuned.